Lots of stuff came over the transom since yesterday’s update. Let’s check it out:
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Gambolin’ Man<\/a> headed up to Cache Creek for a nice hill climb to warm him up for confrontations with one-armed casino bandits.<\/p>\n Constant Trek <\/a>notes that the Sahara Desert is a bad place to attempt to quit smoking.<\/p>\n WildeBeat<\/a> has the last word (we hope!) on the Outdoor Retailers Expo in Salt Lake City. Rebecca of Calipidder.com <\/a>fame makes another appearance and the proprietor of backpackgeartest.org <\/a>notes that he’s got way more gear than he’s got testers to check it out.<\/p>\n Speaking of gear, SteepAndCheep.com <\/a>has a nifty trail chair at 50 percent off (UPDATE: It’s sold out.); HikerDeals<\/a> notes that the big retailers have clearance sales going (posting because I just got 60 bucks off on a new pair of snowshoes from backcountry.com <\/a>)<\/p>\n Speaking of snow sports, GoBlog<\/a> has a video showing how to find someone buried in an avalanche. Oh, and here’s welcome news: certain GoreTex chemicals may cause cancer. <\/a> Swell.<\/p>\n Over in the UK, Andy of Must Be This Way laments the dodgy business practices <\/a>of major gear retailers that do business in the British Isles.<\/p>\n Finally, Dan Mitchell <\/a>offers yet more interesting links from sfgate.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lots of stuff came over the transom since yesterday’s update. Let’s check it out: Those “Our Hike” gals are up to Day 12. I’m noticing they aren’t exactly purists about camping their way across America at this point — quite…<\/p>\n
\nThose “Our Hike” <\/a>gals are up to Day 12. I’m noticing they aren’t exactly purists about camping their way across America at this point — quite a few sleepovers at the homes of generous friends so far, but I have a feeling that after they hit, say, Kansas, they’ll have all the camping they could ever want. Gets pretty lonesome on that prairie.<\/p>\n